Gas leakage claims 5 lives in Quetta

ISLAMABAD: Five labourers were suffocated due to gas leakage near the area of Bakra Peeri in Quetta on Monday afternoon. According to rescue sources the victims were residing in a shared room, they returned to the room after their night duty, due to chilly weather went to bed without switching off the gas heater.

Gas heater remained on after loadshedding hour and gas had been leaking for hours which ultimately became the cause of their deaths, the rescue sources further said. Friend of one of the victims broke the lock after not getting a reply on phone and found all of them dead. The bodies were handed over to their heirs after postmortem, the sources mentioned.